Chaucer wrote 'This wenche thikke ...I wol nat lye' predating Sir-Mix-A-lot by about 600 years.
'This wenche thikke and wel y-growen was, With camuse nose and yën greye as glas; With buttokes brode and brestes rounde and hye But right fair was hir heer, I wol nat lye.'
This Wench was thick and well grown With a snub nose and grey eyes with broad buttocks and round high breasts but right fair was her hair. I cannot lie
'Here lies the body of Mary Lee;
Died at the age of a hundred and three.
For fifteen years she kept her virginity;
Not a bad record for this vicinity.' Robert Shaw says this poem in Jaws
The scene is here
Spielberg asked Shaw for the author so he could get it cleared. But Shaw said as it was from a tombstone in a graveyard near him in Ireland it would not need clearance.
But I can't find a reference for the actual tombstone. Does anyone know where it might be? Shaw lived at Drimbawn House in Tourmakeady, County Mayo
It is very unlikely that would ever be written on an Irish gravestone. But some version of it might have been and then altered by local humour. Something like 'Here lies the body of Mary Lee; died at the age of a hundred and three. For all her life she kept her fidelity.'
The only Mary Lee I can find in Irish graveyards database is this one
which is in Moycullen Old Cemetery not too far from Shaw's home
